skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why do people love to say that correlation does not imply causation?
Thanks!
3rd cofounder here.
This is something we are indeed working on, but we put off the launch for too long already and really wanted to get feedback. You're right though that discoverability isn't great as it is.
Try it on most links here on the HN frontpage though, we're doing them for you today!
semi-serious devils advocacy. I don't know if the below is an argument that is correct but I hope for it to be proven wrong. I am pretty sure that accurately assessing individual capacity/potential is really, really, really hard.

"Google is a very successful technology company. While some of the problems they solve are very challenging and require innovative thinking and research, they have employees with decades of research experience and long publication track records to crack those.

New and seasoned developers will almost certainly have plug-n-chug everyday responsibilities, yet their interview process is still a fearsome battery of computer science questions. Their hiring also produces what is regarded as the most skilled CS workforce in the world and the market rewards them richly for it.

Why shouldn't we emulate this? Isn't it working? Aren't advocates of a disruption of this system essentially saying "Go ahead, relax your standards, what's the worst that could happen"? Is it taking your company 6 months to find a decent employee? Maybe that's about how long it should take because there just aren't that many decent employees."
Research Suggests that GPUs May Represent the Future of Online Authentication
On the show "Strike Back", jQuery is used in missile guidance system
The geolocation API will be as precise as the information the device feeds it. There is no reason it shouldn't be as accurate as the native API. Unless the device doesn't want to provide a data feed to the browser API for some reason.
We go the VM route as well. We have a base VM with all the applications and development tools installed, and clone it for each new developer that we on-board. We have an internal HyperV based solution for hosting the VMs and the cost works out to about 250-300 per month depending on usage, but it's worth the cost...

If you need to set up a base VM, set it up natively on a desktop / laptop and create a VM from it using VirtualBox / VMWare / Parallels ... You can then distribute this VM or host it on a VMWare server
Recreate people's pics from pics in their gallery.
Agreed, though I think the dramatic lighting is responsible for most of it.
There's nothing new here -- this is always the story when you've got resource constrained devices. When PCs make the jump from 2 GHz to 3 GHz, it's not a big deal because the 2 GHz machines still run well. But in the same period of time, tablets have gone from 256 megs to a gig of RAM and from one core to four, so of course you get left behind.

When tablets boast computing capabilities similar to today's PCs, they'll last far longer.
PHP, the web’s most popular programming language, is coming to mobile
> The worst have been ones where it was clear the interviewer had pulled questions out of the company's interview playbook and didn't have the depth of understanding to discuss them.

I'd argue that also belongs under the "best" list, because it told you exactly the level of the people you'd be working for/with.
Then you haven't travelled to a lot of countries.
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Conferences need to fill their rosters, and if that means scraping the bottom of the barrel then so be it.
I disagree heavily.

You're right that boys are marketed to differently than girls, and there is still a heavy bias in media, fashion, and toys towards antiquated gender roles.

But it doesn't explain the lack of women in software, because there are record-breaking numbers of women going into fields that were previously stereotypically male. All the physical sciences, law, medicine, you name it. Women are busting out of the traditional gender stereotypes in every direction except software.

So whatever the effects of gender role indoctrination in children, the software industry is doing worse, much much worse than even that pathetic baseline.

Knowing this, IMO blaming the phenomenon on society in general is a huge cop out. We are doing far, far worse than just about any other profession.
They haven't done this for vulnerabilities in either 3.1.3 or 4.2.1, the other two EOL versions. I guess there probably aren't enough users of these to make them attractive to exploits, but the number of users stuck on iOS5 will likely stay in the 8 digits for a while. Whereas many people have been conditioned to buy a new phone every 24 months, I doubt this applies to iPads and iPod Touches as well. I don't know if that kind of number makes them a sufficiently attractive target for criminals.
The Story of the New Microsoft.com
Would using only a partial block chain result in severe security issues?
Ask HN: Review my startup wuggee.com/find-a-laptop.html
I am thinking of quitting my full time job to work on this full time. Would appreciate your feedback.

More about the website:
Wuggee helps users make quick, informed buying decisions.

We scrape all pertinent information including specs, all available prices, user and expert reviews, seller ratings, etc. Users can filter and find what they are looking for. Non-techy users can get customized recommendations without having to understand jargon.
So, out of curiosity, are you for or against the existence of anti-trust law?
I think this new round has actually worked.
Vapor Text: More texting, fewer regrets
Thanks! Frank is an ongoing experiment (some more info on that here http://blog.terrarium.io). We are currently gauging demand, so if enough people enjoy him he may be developed further.
I think he meant to say that the idea is trivial, not the execution.

Just like twitter "idea" of publicly broadcasting 140 chars is trivial to make, but the whole "twitter" isn't.
Wow.

I think this place looks amazing. Leather and books and dimmer lighting are exactly my personal sweet spot.
It stands to reason! You want go up against Microsoft's lawyers?
How Diaspora became the Facebook killer that never was
Which carrier is it? Which band do they use?
I must have missed the explanation on the chart showing Mobile Penetration by country. Can someone explain how a country like Vietnam has 173% penetration? Does a penetration greater than 100% mean many people have two cell phones?
This is getting too funny. Poor Nokia - because the biggest loser if Microsoft makes its own phone is definitely Nokia. At least HTC, Samsung and the others can still make Android phones, and don't care as much if they don't sell any WP8 phones.
I can tell you why I use the NY times mobile site instead of the Android app on my Galaxy Nexus: the ads. The ad on the mobile app stays on the screen when you scroll the content. It's frequently an obnoxious color that distracts from the article. In the browser, the ads are similar but as you scroll down they leave the screen.

Simple, but it's enough to make me abandon their Android app.
I've been looking for a news app that I like for iPhone for a while now. The NYTimes app was my go-to, until they made it subscription only (I would happily pay for the app if they would just let me). I thought Flipboard held some promise, but I found it too gimmicky. Other news apps I've tried just didn't do it for me.

Honestly, most of the news I get on my phone comes from Twitter (well, Tweetbot to be more precise). When I want to hit up a news site, I go to Evening Edition (http://evening-edition.com).
I'm sure they could love it, but honestly - what else would anyone say when asked publicly about their famous bosses' big money decorator binge?
Free for a tweet isn't free.
Yep, this is why I'm considering getting the new Kindle Paperwhite, which has been getting rave reviews[0]. The display is front-lit, not back-lit, which makes a big difference when it comes to affecting our ability to fall asleep on time (i.e., front-lit = not a problem). All computers, tablets, and phones (and other back-lit devices) definitely have to stay out of the bedroom.

0: http://www.theverge.com/2012/9/30/3433110/amazon-kindle-pape...
"What I like about TypeScript - so far - is that TypeScript’s static typing could enable better tooling with warning squiggles, easy statement completion, plus smart refactoring. You also get easy navigation around code, as well as find references, rename, and more."

RubyMine (by IntelliJ) can do all of that. Don't get me wrong, the refactoring support for statically typed languages is a lot better (e.g changing method signatures) but none of the examples he listed require one.
This makes it easier for people to use one login for all the websites they use. That also makes them inherently less secure.

Multiple accounts is a good idea because it creates separate security domains which cannot be broken. You crack my Facebook password, there's no way you can get into my completely separate Citibank account. The one-login-for-all model is less secure because it centralizes your accounts into one general security domain: the ID provider.

If you hadn't made it a requirement that you can use the computer at your friend's house, this would be more secure, because you could keep your private keys just on your trusted devices. But now you're on a foreign device and you didn't bring your keys - so you have to either get them from your ID provider, or generate new ones.

Now an attacker can either A. break into the ID provider and steal the keys for all the sites you use, or B. intercept the username/password login to your ID provider.

The risk of A. is of course possible, plausible, and given the track record of companies with the highest security reputations in the land being pwnd by lame phishing expeditions, likely to actually work (eventually).

If you were using your home computer with the keys already stored in the browser, B. would be impossible, but you're at a friend's house with no keys. And my guess is there will be malware developed just to disable browser keys, force a u/p login, collect the creds, and try all online banks using this system to find your account and siphon funds. (This is exactly what malware does today, only they usually use direct injection of your normal banking browser sessions or steal saved logins)

Of course you can use separate accounts with Persona. They advertise you using a work e-mail and personal e-mail to make separate accounts. But let's be realistic: who the hell wants to complicate their logins further? People will probably use one e-mail for all their accounts - because it's easy.

I have a solution for these security concerns. It's to stop trying to making security easy. If you forced people instead to jump through hoops for the one or two accounts which really need to be extra secure, they'll deal with it (once) and get on with their lives.

Banking is one example. You can step a user through generating and storing a client certificate, and then they never have to do it again until they use a new computer. If they need access from outside their home (WHICH IS A BAD IDEA, BUT ANYWAY,) they can use a temporary e-mailed login token which is only good for one session and requires things like login rate limits, additional identity verification, etc. We can do this today without any new technology.

Facebook, Twitter, etc aren't sensitive accounts and thus don't need ridiculous security - Persona would be fine for these. Crack my social media accounts, fine, but don't allow things like banks and e-mail accounts to be linked as well. It's like clipping blank checks to your house or office keys.
Untold Stories About Steve Jobs: Friends and Colleagues Share Their Memories
I don't care about these tests. I have a very simple interview process - I ask you what you've done and we talk through it. I may even ask you about how you've solved some problems involved with whatever you were working on. I then jokingly ask you about an inner join or a fib sequence and laugh after a few seconds.

Maybe it's because my I come from the family business of construction years ago, but I believe that it should be easy to hire someone and get them involved quickly. Then we can find out if they are worth it or not. Anything up until that point is talk, and talk is cheap. If they don't past muster eventually I get rid of them. Explaining this up front makes it even easier. I'll hire you quick, but if you don't do what I need you're out. It's not personal.
Yes, my question is whether goog.require() executes on the client's computer (in production) or whether Closure strips out those calls when you pass a special flag (as part of your deploy build). I personally don't want dependency resolution to happen at runtime in production.
Slightly OT: I've been using MySQL for quite some time now and whenever I start a new project thinking that I'll use Postgres this time I find myself lazily opting for something that I know and going back to MySQL. Is there a Postgres guide that is concise, easy to follow and illustrates its advantages over other relational databases. The Postgres guide[1] is too sparse currently and the beginner Apress book[2] mentioned is 644 pages long.

1- http://www.postgresguide.com/

2 - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1590594789
Largest payment platform on Earth, that you havent heard of, can reach 2B people
I think you're actually quoting my "history of MeeGo" post here, not this article :-)

But yeah, you can do a lot with Android, but somehow it still doesn't feel as durable and personal as Maemo was.
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Nokia E-series handsets can be persuaded to support VoIP over EDGE and it sort of works (few years ago we did some testing of that with intention to use that as part of cab telematics), one would say that it works better (certainly it's more reliable) than VoIP over WiFi with same handsets.

Interprotocol handoff between two CS protocols is mostly equivalent problem to normal GSM handoff, handoff of packet switched transport is mostly transparent to higher level applications (ie. voice). Clear problem with IP->CS handoff is sudden change of QoS parameters of channel which I think cannot be overcame in any sane way and any solution involving IP->CS handofs will reintroduce audio artifacts of NMT. (hypothetical insane way: pump full RTP datagrams through UMTS radio channel instead of bare audio, which is impossible to do with GSM radio layer). CS->IP handoff (which seems to me to be more interesting in czech environment) has same problems and also lacks any support in existing CS protocols that are mostly set in stone.

On the other hand I think that LTE deployment will go reasonably fast so these issues can be mostly ignored by doing fallback to CS where possible and using only LTE when deployment is sufficient. So I don't think that anyone is going to seriously consider solving problems inherent in CS<->IP handoff.
Windows 8: five times slower pre-launch adoption rate
I have an N9, and it's great. :)

However, I'm not sure if they have the top talent in their team, such as Peter Skillman who worked on the N9 UX to the best of my knowledge.
"The ideal news reading app would collate content from multiple frequently read sites." By Jove! I think he's on to something. Someone call Dave Winer...
Show HN: Gitpilot (Agile Git GUI) Available in the Apple App Store
Was the iphone 5 rushed?
Maybe they have private offices.
The source I was looking at claimed 2.8 million Airs in (fiscal) Q2 of FY12, but digging in, it looks like that is the total for all MacBooks. So you're right that these stats don't indicate that the Air is necessarily what customers want.

Still, 10M/year for a category that launched only a year ago? Obviously not what Intel hoped for, but that doesn't seem so shabby to me. It certainly doesn't tell me that customers are completely uninterested.
“Like Eating Glass”: Sean Parker on Airtime’s Bumpy Launch
Absurdly Hyped Startup Airtime Has Officially Flopped And Top Execs Are Fleeing
Both my mother and wife work in the health field and both are always going on about all the hostility that goes on in the workplace, to the point that they are both ready to leave – some of their colleagues have already done so for the same reasons. Yet, the health industry remains a place where a lot of women are drawn to work in it.

I'm not trying to justify the actions of people in IT. I'm all for it to become the paragon for the treatment of women and set the standard for the rest of the working world. However, I'm not sure IT is unique in this regard so it does not really explain why woman are drawn away into other, just as hostile, professions.
For quality, I'd say Soho is a bit better for the price.. Midtown tends to be mediocre-affordable, awesome-superexpensive; Soho tends to be prettygood-affordable, awesome-superexpensive.

Unless midtown food options have radically changed since I last worked up there five years ago.
Lockitron: Keyless entry using your phone
He was probably comparing the MBA against the X1 Carbon.
Onboarding process was awesome and effective. I went to the site meaning to just check it out but the process was almost too easy and now I have the tldr bookmarklet just sitting there on my toolbar.

Also I love the hover feature on the bookmarklet when you first see it.
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The parent comment didn't downplay any of that.

But honestly, Woz quotes at this point are basically "Preacher Delivers Sermon to Choir, Film at 11". The only people who bother to listen to him are people who already agree with with he's going to say, so whose understanding is being broadened by this? And how are these kinds of stories going to accomplish anything in the wider world beyond HN?
Git v1.8.0-rc0 released
You could use something like a Linode virtual server as your dev env. I know a few people do that. Of course if you're doing web development you may have to deal with your dev server possibly being publicly facing.

Personally I mostly do Node.js and Python development, and I just set up an Ubuntu Server VM in VirtualBox and share a folder from the host OS. That way I can use the VM to run the code, but use editors etc on the host OS. I can set-up a VM in about 15 mins so it isn't even worth backing them up or transferring them between machines.
The Greenest House in Britain
This is not Noah's first transgression in a similar vein: http://sherprog.com/2011/07/10/noah-kagan-and-the-faceless-b...

While I support Noah's right to say what he wants to say in the US, I do believe that his attention-grabbing tactics are in extreme poor taste and future conferences should take heed that this is what they might be signing up for by getting him as a speaker. Noah seems to be an otherwise smart guy and an excellent businessman. I'm sad that he seems somewhat obtuse to this behavior as inappropriate.
I have such mixed feelings about this being on HN. Yes, I think we should read it and learn from it. I absolutely agree with the author. It's one of those things I wish everyone knew but for some reason there are still people who don't, so maybe showing up on the front page every once and a while is a good reminder.

But the comments should be turned off. This is such a heated topic and are there aren't any right answers to this problem besides "keep it in mind, don't do what they did". What can possibly be discussed here besides emotional bickering from both sides. It does not seem productive and is not interesting conversation.
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So the main things:

1) It's dark. Dark is nice for atmospheric, not so nice for avoiding eye strain, plus overall light is just more pleasing - ask an estate agent (realtor in the US?) what sells property - space and light is the answer. I know we're not selling the office here but it's a good measure of what people really like - what they're willing to pay for.

2) It does look more like a private club, but not just that, it manages to look like a private club without being high end. Look at that carpet - it looks like something you'd find in a budget hotel or conference center.

3) From a design perspective it just clashes - you've got at least three wood tones in there (including very dark and really pretty light), at least two different basic styles (the old world globe and leather chairs, the ornate candle stick and taps against the clean lines of the bar, the exposed ceiling, the light wooden floor).

The more I look at it the more horrible I find it.

And I should be clear, I have nothing against the more "traditional" look. I once worked for a major global law firm where the office decor was in places very conservative (think wood panels, ornate dark wood furniture in reception, thick carpets) and it was beautiful, and I live in a house that's about the same age as Texas which is obviously not modern in it's appearance.

As I say, it's very much personal taste but whether you like it or not, I think it's hard to say that that the aesthetic is not all over the place.

I'm sure someone who knows way more than me about such things can come along and tell me why it's all great from an interior design perspective but to me at least, it's a mess.
The lead is buried behind piano practice, but this is a great piece and worth reading.

There are causes behind why bugs are introduced, and the cause is never as simple as "that person is stupid / bad at their job".
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MoviePass, aka Netflix for theatres, unveils new service plan
First of all, I'm glad Microsoft is getting involved in this space. They have a deep talent pool when it comes to language design and tooling and it'll be interesting to see where TypeScript goes.

Unfortunately, the arguments trying to draw some kind of monumental distinction between TypeScript, Dart and CoffeeScript are silly. They are all a response to the state of client-side development and are all applying essentially the same strategy (i.e., some syntax changes and a pre-compiler). It's great that TypeScript is a superset, which is what makes it pretty interesting to me, but it's still more similar to the other two than not.

Plus, what's so bad about being Microsoft's "answer" to something else? Windows was the response to Mac OS, Xbox was a response to PlayStation, .NET was the response to Java, ASP.NET AJAX was the response to Prototype (later abandoned for jQuery), ASP.NET MVC was the response to Rails, Entity Framework was the response to Hibernate/Active Record, NuGet was the response to Rubygems/npm. Each of these moved MSFT forward and several of them moved the industry forward. The ASP.NET team (of which Mr. Hanselman is a member) is doing a lot of great stuff inside MSFT, but a lot of is derivative. That's okay. It's largely the strategy MSFT has always followed, so why waste energy defending what has worked well in the past?

I agree with one point, however: It is disappointing when smart people display a profound ignorance of computing history.
>As far as I can tell there is a little more system compatibility but no software features.

There are new software features – they're shipping 3.0 with the new hardware.[1] All applicable software features are also available for users of existing hardware (unlike Apple, I might add).

[1] http://www.nest.com/blog/2012/10/02/the-next-generation-nest...
Cofounder here, thank you for your comment on the onboarding process! We spent a lot of time on it :)
I may go to prison for this (oh well)
I like this. I'd definitely use it. Could do with a little sex-ing up, but the functionality is very useful.
Does the "like/tweet/pin us to even try our product" appeal to a large group of people I'm not aware of? My initial reaction to these tactics is a mix of "Gee they must not think they're product is very good" and, "Oh, fuck off."

It's asking for a personal endorsement (one of the most valuable currencies at my disposal in the information economy) of something I do not yet have the option evaluate. I was really excited to try this, but I'm not going to. Ick.
Time Lapse of Drawing the View from Empire State Building